With cold and flu season approaching, it’s worth knowing about another virus out there—albeit extremely rare: bird flu. Like ...
A patient in Missouri was hospitalized with bird flu despite having no reported contact with animals, according to the CDC.
Federal officials are still trying to determine how a Missouri resident with no known exposure to bird flu, contracted the ...
Bird flu’s jump from cows to birds raises concerns it could adapt and spread quickly among humans, Reuters reports.
A close contact of a Missouri resident identified as having a human case of the H5N1 avian flu also became sick around the ...
The convergence of multiple flu strains in one animal can allow new virus strains to form—just as they did in past pandemics.